cannot stream tv tuner channel via media tomb

I installed media tomb and my windows 7 media player (WMP) "sees" the Media Tomb Server.
I've setup a TV channel using the mediatomb web interface. The channel is

type: External Link
URL: http://192.168.1.4:8001/1:0:19:1B1C:802:2:11A0000:0:0:0
Protocol: http-get
Mimetype: video/ts

However...

Problem 1:
I followed this to get TV channels streaming but when I click on the WMP media tomb server , this TV "channel" stream is not available. All I can "see" is:
MUSIC
VIDEO
TV RECORDINGS
and in the VIDEO are all my videos - which are actually TV recordings so not sure why they appear under VIDEO - but the TV source is not shown

Problem2:
On my linux box, if I click on the "tv channel" in the media tomb webinterface, an MPG file starts downloading in chromium browser. If I open this file up then the TV channel is "played" although I have to close down VLC and stop the download to terminate viewing.

Not quite a correct setup but if someone could help with the above problems Id be obliged.

Because I must have DLNA provided media , that is how my entire home network and devices are setup. Consistent approach that all my kids can understand.
Webif streaming works fine for sure, but how do I address the above problems ?

eh - tuner config? Its nothing to do with that.

Since posting I tried creating an m3u file in which is contained the URL link. Now, on my windows box - when I add this item file to the PC directory in media tomb and click on the file , WMP fires up and plays the TV channel - perfect. Nothing to do with tuner config (the STB plays TV fine - this wasnt the issue - Im wondering why you suggested that in the first place?? ah well...moving on...

So I can stream TV via media tomb but only when connected to its web interface; what I would like to do is get media tomb to serve the item file through to a DLNA client. Some scripting may be required because the layout=js is set in the server config (config.xml) but I dont know how to do this.

Anyone?